Why FOSS
FOSS stands for “Free and Open Source Software” (free as in freedom), The Foss application are generally more privacy-friendly and secure. The good thing about foss is that you will discover creativity of developers as their are projects which great, weird, stupid, and cool.
Linux Command Library
The Linux Command Library is a FOSS app that shows you all the commands that you need. This Includes Key-bindings for - Vim - Emacs - Nano - Pico This an amazing app as if you forget any specific you can just search in this app and it will provide you with all the results. It Includes almost all the commands which you require to run your Linux System From the basics to the Advanced. The app currently has 4638 manual pages, 21 basic categories and a bunch of general terminal tips. It works 100% offline, doesn’t need an internet connection and has no tracking software.
Shelter
Shelter is a FOSS app that uses “Work Profile” feature of Android to provide an isolated space where you install or clone your apps.
This is very useful when you have multiple accounts in same profile and want to separate them, or used to compartmentalise apps that does not respect privacy and user data. When you isolate app it cannot access data outside the profile
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Newpipe
You can say Newpipe is a youtube client, but there’s more to it. Newpipe doed not use any Google framework libraries, or the YouTube API. It only parses the website in order to gain the information it needs. Hence you can use it without Google Services installed. Also, you don’t need a YouTube account to use NewPipe.
- In Newpipe there is a subscriton page, which is similar to youtube’s subscription page
- Trending page based on your location
- You can Download Videos
- You can also view your history and create playlists
There is no data collection form youtube and no algorithm base content which designed to take all your time, plus no youtube shorts the main reason why changed from youtube to newpipe. You can also view contents form Sound-Cloud and Peer-Tube.
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Feeder
Freeder is an Free and Open Source RSS Feed Reader. Nowadays we don’t require a rss feed reader as compared to old days. But I personally find it very useful as don’t like to disturbed by notifications or waste time on watching algorithmic curated content. With help of feeder you add youtube channels, podcasts, blogs to it and you can set it refresh whenever you want or you can set that to manual, where it will search for new content and show you.
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Spotiflyer
With help of spotiflyer you can download songs, albums and playlists from Spotify, Gaana, Jio Saavn, Youtube Music, SoundCloud. This does not allow the companies to collect data and serve ads to us. This is very useful if you don’t want to be online or have to keep also music locally available.
Spotiflyer is available for Sndroid,Windows, Linux and MacOs.
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